International Development Journalism competition: 2012 - gallery

Nurse Auma Cecilia, 26, listens for baby's heartbeat during a check-up of a pregnant mother in Tiriri Health Center IV, Katine Sub-County, Soroti District, Uganda on August 16 2012. Photograph: Tadej Znidarcic/Tadej Znidarcic

Ageo Phoebe, 41, chairperson of Adamasiko VSLA in her homestead in Adamasiko Village, Katine Sub-County, Soroti District, Uganda on August 31 2012. Photograph: Tadej Znidarcic/Tadej Znidarcic

Aguti Modesta, 37, member of Asianut VSLA in her compound in Omarai Village, Katine Sub-County, Soroti District, Uganda on August 30 2012. Photograph: Tadej Znidarcic/Tadej Znidarcic

An international NGO has been assisting health care and the training of health workers for many years. On the photograph, patients after they received vaccination for their babies. Photograph: Petterik Wiggers/Panos Pictures

Soledad Lorudes Farias Faria, 34, in her house, in a fishing neighborhood called Puerto Bolivar in Machala, Ecuador with Angela Maria Farias Hildago,52, and Angie Britty Barreto Farias, 10. Photograph: Ivan Kashinsky/Ivan Kashinsky

Patience Diaba's participation in a 'Banking on Change' Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) has helped her expand her business, smoking and selling fish. She is pictured in the market at Dabala Junction in the Volta Region of Ghana, where she sells fish that she has cured at her home nearby. Photograph: Nyani Quarmyne/Nyani Quarmyne

Community Police Forum meeting at the office of the CPF in the Tsakane township. Photograph: Charlie Shoemaker/Charlie Shoemaker

Francisca is a widower, her husband died in 2004. She has 2 children of her own but is currently looking after her niece and nephew. Photograph: Matthew Oldfield/Matthew Oldfield

Jane Simon was the first farmer to try out shop insurance seed Durma. Photograph: Julia McKay/Julia McKay

Young boys carrying home pails of water on their heads fetched from a a borehole on the ouskirts of Lilongwe in Malawi where the government and relief agencies are struggling with an age-old culture of large nuclear-family units which has led to mounting poverty and significantly poor distribution of resource and opportunity per-capita in the southern Africa nation. Photograph: Anthony Karumba/Anthony Karumba

Members of the Msiki Aids Support Group formed in 2008 dance and sing as they welcome Rob Trask (not pictured), one of the finalists in the Guardian International Development Journalism Competition. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Siegfried Modola

Nathaniel Mejia, 6, and Jose Luis Deleon, 8, swing at a playground in the El Caoba housing complex in La Libertad, El Salvador. Their homes were destroyed when the Melara river flooded in 2008. Deleon said he remembers the day of the flood, and running as fast as he could to the school for safety. He said he felt sad because he lost all of his toy cars and trucks in the flood, but that it is okay because then they moved to the El Caoba complex, where his family received a new home from the international NGO, Plan UK. "Now we have a floor in our new house, before it was just dirt," he said. "I'm very happy now." Photograph: Meridith Kohut/Meridith Kohut

Children walking to the Shiyane High School in Rorke's Drift in the morning at about 7.30 am crossing the Buffalo River. Photograph: Graeme Williams/Panos

Sinethemba, with his grandmother, brothers and sister. His parents have died and all the children are supported by the Grandmother's pension. She is also an alcoholic. Photograph: Graeme Williams/Panos

Children's intensive care ward, Maternity Hospital Pujehun, Sierra Leone. Photograph: Bex Singleton/Bex Singleton